Please post progress shots? I want one of these, too.
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That looks cool! Please do a build log of this.
Got another T-2 today. I shopped around for a replacement sheet and there’s very little out there. The Two Bobs sheet looked really nice and I almost bought it when I saw that Kingkit had the Revell reissue for a lot less than the decals. This way I can do both US and Greek aircraft as there’s only a couple of stencils common.
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One of my goals this year is to finish off all of last year’s builds. One of which is the Supermodel/Italeri MB339 in Argentine markings. One of the problems I had were the old decals breaking apart, so I’ve been on the hunt for sometime for replacements. Well, I got lucky the weekend and found Sky Models excellent sheet which arrived today.
Lots of options here and should allow me to do plenty of Italian aircraft. Very useful as Italeri only give the option of Frecce Tricolori aircraft.
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Today a most welcome box arrived from Most(CZ) what means Eduard 
Couldn’t withstand their January bundle for the “Gustav” (The kit with 2 models plus 2x overtrees what makes it four Messerschmitts).
See you at the next campigns, mates!
Peter
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Good haul, Peter! You just can’t have enough One-O-Nines. Ask me how I know … 
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Nice !
Are you changing your name to Gustav? 
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Not yet, Phil! 
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I will be watching. Our late friend Siderius loved the Firefly. He had airfix’s old kit of it. I still have it and intend to build it for him.
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Can I post in “what the postman brought” if I bought the models and drove them home from a model show? 
Chattanooga. January 4th of this year. Scored a bunch of goodies. Also brought home flu A, but that’s another story.
First, an old friend of mine. I just wish I found the kit with the torpedoes.
A little bit of backstory. All my life I’ve been a term that I just recently learned: data hoarder. Hasegawa’s Mavis is the first entry in my list of models which I started in 1975, that I still keep up with. It’s not complete because I started building models in 1968.*. Otherwise, every model that I’ve bought since then is on the list. Also what I paid for it, the dates I started and finished it, and what became of it. Mavis was my first “professional” model in that I’d researched colors, tried to make the uniforms and everything correct, and I spray painted with rattle cans. I still have the model although it’s in three major pieces. I think I have most the small pieces, too. I’ll restore it for nostalgia someday.
Last year I finally tracked down and bought the Revell Black Cat PBY. Then I decided I want a more up-to-date kit, which I found at a very reasonable price at the model show.
I get jealous when I see you guys come home for model shows with $100 models that you only paid $75 for. I was not that lucky but I got these for good prices, i.e., for about as much as I would pay for model show lunch.
When Monogram began releasing their Century Series kits, I was really not that interested. They were too modern and my interests were elsewhere. But over the last many years I’ve decided I will build the entire set. Monogram put out a many kits in the '80s and '90s I just had no interest in, but now I want to build them all. The voodoo I bought for my friend who really likes the Voodoo. I’ll buy one for myself someday.
The Dart is one of the Jets I hoped to fly 40 years ago. I don’t know the status of the project right now but when I was in El Paso in 2008, there’s a guy at the airport who had bought at least two, and I think a third one, that he was trying to use to make one flyable. He had restored and flown a F-100 Super Saber, and when I was out there he was flying around in a restored F-5. There’s a old Six pilot on youtube, Bruce Gordon. He also flew the Deuce. Great stories.
Love me the Gloster Gladiator. 1/48 is the “true scale” but just as some songs need the volume up louder than you’d usually listen to, some subjects need to be built in a grander scale, too.
Finally, to paraphrase Mal Mayfield about the Spitfire, you can’t have enough Zeros. It’s been out forever but I’ve never built Tamiya’s Hamp.
Now I’ve got to decide the big question. What camouflage and markings am I going to put on these things? And when will I have time to even start them? 
*I don’t know how many models I built throughout my life although in the early seventies, when I applied for Revell’s Master Modeler Club, I remember the list I sent in listed upwards of 200 models. Most of those probably did not survive more than a couple of hours after finishing them and I suspect that whoever lives in the house that I grew up in is to this day finding little pieces of models out in the backyard.
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Not a kit this time, but Ospreys book on the Skyknight over Korea and Vietnam. Also includes a chapter on operations around Cuba in the early 60’s. Lots of good photos and profiles. Looking forward to making a start on reading over the weekend.
Once I have a few projects finished up, the Skyknight’s will be next on the bench.
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You don’t see many drut’s built. Kinda crazy it stuck around for 20 yrs when many early jet design had come and gone much faster.
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I will be watching. Our late friend Siderius loved the Firefly. He had airfix’s old kit of it. I still have it and intend to build it for him.
what a nice thought!
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Sure 
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Since I can’t follow even the simplest concepts, i.e., What the postman brought TODAY, can I pretend this didn’t arrive last week?
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Well, today… yesterday… last week. it’s just time 
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